The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Long-gestating commentary on fantasy and delusion is Terry Gilliam at his most Gilliamesque (for better or worse)

"...Obsession is a bizarre trait. Without it, no filmmaker would..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All I See Is You

A blind woman who regains her sight starts to see things differently

"...out when several plot points don’t make any sense. Obsession is present, but not like that of a Lifetime..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Film Geek

Unfortunately, this low-budget portrait of a socially inept film-store geek is annoyingly two-dimensional, and the film's paper-thin plot and flat jokes don't help either.

"...accessible (and legal) way to escape your problems. Movie obsession seems, therefore, a ripe and relevant storytelling framework. But..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Le Divorce

The Merchant Ivory team say "I do" to romantic comedy.

"...flair here, including two stylish sequences detailing the French obsession with food and scarves, but they are but brief..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him

"...elaborate joke), but it was women who were his obsession – and they rightly get their response. Most importantly,..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Image Book

Godard's final experiment is more thesis and installation than film

"...Part IX, a further meditation on film culture's complicated obsession with real-world violence, East-West relations, sexuality, and myth. Images..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

People’s Republic of Desire

China's terrifying social media dystopia makes new media slaves

"...hero to the masses or an object of sexual obsession. Fans, many of them struggling to make ends meet,..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity

"...has put up with boyfriend Duncan (O’Dowd) and his obsession over Nineties indie rock dude Tucker Crowe (Hawke), who..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mountain

Scenes from the edge of the world in this meditative documentary

"...pure danger, to our new relationship of adoration and obsession. In a perfect fusing of Renan Ozturk's cinematography, Australian..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hereditary

Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror

"...her screen debut), whose emulation of her mother's miniature obsession has its own darker meaning. Meanwhile her husband Steve..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

RBG

Loving look at the Supreme Court member, and unlikely pop culture icon

"...culture usually lands on a less deserving object of obsession – some YouTube star, or whatever flavor Kardashian we’re..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fashionista

UK-to-ATX transplant Simon Rumley's thriftstore mystery

"...takes that tactile sensation and turns it into an obsession in his new thriller Fashionista. April (Fuller) runs a..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mustang Island

A deft millennial comedy of manners

"...John (Merriman) and their best-bro pal Travis (Newman). Bill’s obsession with winning back Molly takes the threesome to Texas’..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Square

A scathing and uncomfortable satire of the art world

"...aforementioned fragile male ego, feigned humanitarianism, and the current obsession with outrage culture...."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ingrid Goes West

Hashtag: #thisisyourlife

"...mother follows, and almost immediately, Ingrid finds a new obsession, Taylor Sloane (Olsen), a vacuous Californian who is popular..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western

"...have-nots and the bonds they forge continues the director’s obsession for the genre films she grew up with while..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Before I Fall

"...pertinent in this era marked by our social media obsession and epidemic of childhood bullying. The film presents alternatives..."

March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It Follows

A killer force is spread through sex, and it's all very creepy and evocative

"...and has a wicked slant on the horror genre’s obsession with burgeoning sexuality. You’re not likely to shake it..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

I Origins

The director of 2011's Another Earth is back with a another appealing yet fuzzy story about rift between empiricism and spiritualism.

"...infinite individuation – like fingerprints or snowflakes. It’s this obsession that leads him to Sofi (Bergès-Frisbey) at a NYC..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deliver Us From Evil

A police officer and a priest team battle supernatural forces in this horror thriller from the director of Sinister.

"...film that started it all. When will the movies’ obsession with this rarely performed religious practice ever wane? God..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Heaven Is for Real

Greg Kinnear plays a dad who believes his son's claim to have seen heaven.

"...of fact or fantasy becomes his personal and professional obsession, one that could cost him his ministry, his reputation,..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Prisoners

Jake Gyllenhaal is a detective working a troubling case, and Hugh Jackman's wound-up father of the victim is just one of his problems.

"...a bleak police procedural stoked by the fires of obsession and regret. It's a rough, gritty ride, but one..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Somm

Are sommeliers the "new rock stars of the food industry"?

"...often amusing observations and insights into the highly specialized profession/obsession of sommelier, or wine steward, dubbed here by one..."

June 28, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

There's little about this return trip to Middle-earth that feels "unexpected" or fresh.

"...Journey. Rather than an epic continuation of Jackson’s Middle-earth obsession, the film seems more like the work of a..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Butter

Jennifer Garner stars in this satire about a woman who'll stop at nothing to win the Iowa state butter-carving competition.

"...a lingering sense that these Iowans and their butter-art obsession are expendable targets who won’t hear us laughing at..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cry of the Owl

Based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, this mood-heavy film contemplates what happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor.

"...happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor. Reeling from a rocky divorce, the..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hancock

Will Smith is the titular Hancock, a character as befuddling as the odd movie that surrounds him.

"...of nonexposition, leaving you to wonder about its protagonist's obsession with eagles; whether or not he's a god, an..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Love Guru

Is it redundant to mock self-help culture? Not if you're Mike Myers and have a new sketch-comedy character to introduce.

"...as spiritual adviser to an African-American hockey player whose obsession with his ex-wife’s generously endowed, mustachioed Quebecois goalie boyfriend..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Kung Fu Panda

Jack Black's animated Po may be an animated panda bear, but deep down, he’s really just a nerd with a pop-culture obsession.

"...down, he’s really just a nerd with a pop-culture obsession. In Kung Fu Panda’s opening scene (animated in a..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Chapter 27

Jared Leto gains weight and lets it all hang out as John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in this fictionalized account of what occurred at the Dakota.

"...opportunity to explore the subtle line between fandom and obsession (after all, Chapman wasn’t the only person freezing on..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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